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    Gabby Agbonlahor

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    Gabby has put his house on Roman Road in Little Aston on the market. £3.2m if anyone is interested. It's a strange one as he bought a house had it demolished and had a house built. By my reckoning he has only lived there a couple of years.

     

    On the move from Villa maybe? :detect:

     

    Where's this advertised then? 

    Barry Bannan

    in Hall of Fame

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    A few Con classics:

     

    Love this one!

     

     

    Just heard of Forest's interest in Bannan. To be honest, i'd snap their hands of for 2m+.

    Just isn't good enough for me. But then i'd probably say the same for our whole midfield to be honest. Think we need a new midfield full stop.


    LOL. I wouldn't sell him for £20m.

    Don't ask me to justify that. My opinion.

     

     

     

    And to think Coutinho could've pushed him for a starting place...........

     

     

    No stats really and I've been quite pleased with how he's played this season.

    But I just feel Bannan has already been here a while and will always struggle to stamp his name on the first team sheet.

    He'll move on if players like Stephens come in and find themselves ahead of him.


    He's only played 50% time available in midfield for Premiership matches but he has played the most minutes of any CM midfielder.

    If any one of our midfielders cannot complain about game time it is Bannan.

    His only reason to move would be greater ambition than Villa. He must know how good he is, and the results the team get when he plays, so he must feel as though he has proven himself as a more regular starter than he already is.

    If Stephens comes in he will be an added dimension as he is not the same kind of player as Bannan.

    If we just got Stephens he'll provide competition for Ireland and Delph.

    If we got Coutinho from Inter, he'll provide competition for Bannan.

     

     

     

    Could have helped out Moyes this year then if only Fergie hadn't lost his marbles and retired and Wenger just refused to loosen the purse strings!!

     

     

    And yet here he is at one of the worst teams in the league.

    Beckham like crossing, created chances at a level close to Gerard, surely he's off to the big clubs in the summer then.


    Yes, sadly he might be, for next to nothing compared to his true value.

    I'd expect Wigan, Swansea, Arsenal or Man Utd to be interested, but he'd probably only leave us for Arsenal or Man Utd.

    We'd still have Gary Gardner, if he can regain his form after injury, but if we could keep both Gardner and Bannan I believe we would have two world class players in our team.

    Under present ownership we can't afford to buy two world class midfielders, so Bannan and Gardner, as potential world class players, are IMO the Villa future.

     

     

     

    Yohan Cabaye's replacement at PSG could be waiting in the wings on Palace's bench!

     

     

    The point is that passing accuracy by itself is a meaningless stat. It's a descriptive stat, as useful as saying that someone scored a goal or an assist. There's no context or analysis of it so when Bannan has an 85% passing accuracy compared to Cabaye's 64% passing accuracy, it's absolutely stupid to say, "Well, Bannan is the better passer."

     

    Nobody has said that. You did. Don't put words into our mouths, literally by quoting an imaginary statement.

     

    It can only be said Bannan was a more accurate passer in that game. That's a fact. To say anything else you need to look deeper.

     

    Ultimately, who is the "better passer" depends on how you define "better".

     

    Does better mean:

     

    1. Is more creative when passing: provides more "key passes" and assists. Cabaye has 1 assist and 20 key passes, Bannan has 1 assist and 30 key passes.

    2. Has a higher accuracy across the whole range of passing techniques (e.g. short, long, crossing). Up to game 23, Cabaye was 80%, 62%, 32%. Bannan was 80%, 65%, 46%.

    3. Is better over 1 season rather than over 1 game or 20 games. In this case, we will have to wait until the end of the season to know who is the better passer.

    4. Is better for the system you want to play. Leon Britton has no assists and just 5 key passes but he is a very important player for the Swansea team due to his passing accuracy alone, which is over 90%.

     

     

    Right now given the choice between Cabaye and Bannan I'd have Cabaye in my team, even though he is currently passing less accurately. Cabaye has a good long shot, is 4 years older and has more experience of big matches. There is no reason Bannan cannot be better than Cabaye in future if he keeps working at his game.

     

     

     

    A legend has left us. It was a sad day  :(

     

     

     

     

    That one point could be the difference between relegation and Premier League football next year

     

    Just one assist. It's not really good enough and could relegate us. Had he have got several assists and maybe 3-4 goals we might be in a better place, if you want to start apportioning blame. I mean, if he is meant to be is a creative midfielder, what sort of creativity is that?  

     

     

    I think Bannan is our lowest wage-earning midfielder who has started a game this year. If we stay up he'll be a legend for that assist, whatever happens. Randy should give him a bonus too.

     

     

    Con's comedy gold. The gift that just keeps giving!

     

    Motoring towards 500 pages! Keep going!!!!

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